Sunday 5th February 2012

Silay City

Silay City Christmas Village 2011

When I agreed to be one of the judges in Silay City’s Christmas Village Arko Competition, little did I know that I will be the only non-artist in the group. It was an honor to be in such an esteemed group of judges. Good thing they have no air and made jokes so I was [...]

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Featured

Fresh Start Organics Farm in Silay: A Showcase on Sustainable Farming

Do you know that vegetable farming can earn you more per square meter than sugarcane farming? At least that’s true in the case of Fresh Start Organics Farm in Silay City. What started as just a demo farm to showcase their organic fertilizer product is now a showcase of sustainable farming and one that is [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

Hacienda Adela Folklore Village: Keeping the Ilonggo Oral Traditions Alive

What we saw during the Silay heritage tour we had during the Philippine Blog Awards Visayas was not the usual image of Silay with its grand mansions and affluent landowner-residents. I can say it was a Silay from the sacada perspective. Ver Pacete, Silay Tourism Officer brought us to Hacienda Adela to experience how the [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

Silay Beyond the Landmarks

Allow me to borrow the title of a photo album in Silay City‘s Official Facebook page for the title of this blog post because that’s exactly what the bloggers discovered during a heritage tour of Silay as part of the activities for the Philippine Blog Awards Visayas. We are very familiar with images of Silay [...]

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Philippine Blog Awards Visayas Successfully Held in Museum City of Silay

The 2011 Philippine Blog Awards Visayas could not have been held in a more fitting venue than Silay City. Its vibrant local economy and a local government supportive in the preservation of its rich cultural heritage cannot be matched by any city in Negros Occidental. Silay has the most number of declared Heritage houses in [...]

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The Philippine Blog Awards – Visayas Today!

All roads for Visayas bloggers lead to Silay City today for the 2011 Philippine Blog Awards (PBA) – Visayas. The PBA is a an annual event that aims to give recognition to outstanding blogs in the Visayas. The PBA-Visayas will be be held at 2pm today at the Sen. Jose C. Locsin Cultural and Civic [...]

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ExperienceNegros.com Nominated for Best Travel Blog

ExperienceNegros.com is one of the finalists for Best Travel Blog Category at the 2011 Philippine Blog Awards Visayas. We’d like to thank all our readers and followers for this nomination. If we don’t end up with the award, we’re already a winner because of you. The winners of the 2011 Philippine Blog Awards Visayas will [...]

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Ancestral Houses

Sen. Jose C. Locsin Ancestral House, Silay City

One of the most notable sons of Silay was the late Sen. Jose Corteza Locsin. He was born on August 27, 1891 in Silay to parents from Molo, Iloilo who were one of the pioneers in the sugar industry in Negros Occidental. Locsin obtained his bachelor of arts degree at the Liceo de Manila in [...]

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Ready to Experience the Great Adobo Lunch?

The 14th Adobo Festival on Saturday, November 5, 9am-2pm at the Balay Negrense boasts of the The Great Adobo Lunch which will highlight past winning recipes of the annual food competition and fair. The menu will include last year’s winner Adobo Crevette A L’Anglaise by Robert Harland. The other champion Adobo dishes and heirloom recipes [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

Silay, Cinco De Noviembre and the Philippine Independence

Celebrate 113 years of Independence in the very place where it started! When the Spanish civil guards in Silay under Lt. Maximiano Correa signed the Acta de Rendicion or surrender papers on that fateful 5th of November 1898, our revolutionary leaders and the people of Silay who joined the struggle for freedom were not aware [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

2011 Cinco de Noviembre Celebratins in Silay City

Silay City in cooperation with Brgy. Cinco de Noviembre Barangay Council, Liga ng mga Barangay and Hugyaw Silay, Inc. will memorialize Cinco de Noviembre 1898 event on November 5. Mayor Jose Montelibano said that the celebration will honor the heroic deeds of Silay ancestors, the hacenderos and the jornaleros, who joined forces to defeat Spanish [...]

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